What courses do you think are the least to highest in competitiveness. And also what campus do you think are the least to highest in competitiveness.
hey there,
well, as you can see on the U of T course timetable, there are almost 8000 courses offered during the fall/winter school year across all its undergrad faculties.
you want to know which of these are the least to highest in competitiveness? have i got a list for you, ranked highest to lowest in competition:
- ANT192 murder and other deathly crimes
- CRI480 interpersonal violence
- ECO316 applied game theory
- ECO380 markets, competition, and strategy
- STA475 survival analysis
- BMS411 squid game and the media
- PCJ260 intro to peace, conflict, and justice
- CSE270 community dis/engagement and solidarity
- PSY336 positive psychology
- CHE334 team strategies for engineering design
wait maybe applied game theory should be number one, cause that’s crazy. do they apply? game theory? in class? against each other? for grades? who cares about deathly crimes (aka emotional warfare) when you’ve got grades on the line.
ok don’t take anything i just said seriously. i’ve just been emotionally scarred by some classmates.
jokes aside, realistically, there is no way of saying which of the 8000 courses are highest and lowest in competitiveness without taking all of them or having some sort of crazed opinion-based database. unfortunately, the closest U of T students have ever come to making one of those was the anti-calendar, which mysteriously died out sometime in 2011.
the only actual general knowledge on competitiveness at U of T is that the rotman business programs are definitely every-man-for-himself. i know several people in rotman, and not only is it super difficult to get good grades there, you have to be extensively involved in extra-curricular programming and clubs. the vibe is that there’s a lot of fake sucking-up and networking in those circles. i heard they do peer evaluations after some group projects, where they have to prepare an argument to present to their prof as to why they should get higher grades than their group members who “did less work”. brutal, i tell ya.
so as you’ll probably guess, competition also depends on the size of your program. i think with really popular programs that have limited enrolment, you would encounter more competition in class rather than in open enrolment programs. some of the smaller programs also have more tight-knit communities, where everyone is more welcoming and kind to each other. i’d say this is definitely the case with niche social science programs.
from past research, i’ve heard entry into the computer science program is really competitive, though i’m not sure how it is after you get in. and, i took some political science adjacent courses and those were pretty competitive compared to life sci courses i’ve taken. in poli sci/public policy/peace conflict and justice courses, i guess you’ve just got a concentration of people who want to be world leaders or politicians, so you get the vibe.
honestly, it would be a lot to give my opinion on every single one of the 700 programs U of T offers, so maybe give me a shortlist of ones that you’re curious about instead?
as for competition across the three U of T campuses, i can actually tell you about that because i can actually count the number on one hand :D!
based on what i’ve heard from people who have taken classes in all three campuses, UTM (mississauga) is the most competitive, UTSG (st. george) is in the middle, and UTSC (scarborough) is the least competitive. however, that’s not to say every single UTM course is competitive, i think it just depends what your specific program would be.
anyhoo, hope this somewhat answered your questions? if not, i hope you enjoyed my yap session.
and if you really want an answer, don’t hesitate to shoot another, more specific, question!
over and out,
aska